About the Authors

Odett Kaiser

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Pooyan Aliuos

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Kirsten Wissel

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Thomas Lenarz

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Darja Werner

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Günter Reuter

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Andrej Kral

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Athanasia Warnecke

Warnecke.Athanasia@mh-hannover.de

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TL GR OK AW. Performed the experiments: OK DW KW PA. Analyzed the data: OK DW AW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TL GR AK PA. Wrote the paper: OK AW KW AK.